Quote #4891
When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when...
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There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the...
Quote #6005
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like...
Quote #5116
If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend...
Quote #703
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Quote #19648
When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the...
Quote #25660
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
Quote #34753
Despite everything I’ve achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the...
Quote #18226
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore,...
Quote #1645
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.